Speech of Vladimir Putin before the Collective Security Treaty Organisation’s Collective Security Council in Dushanbe

The presidents of Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan met in narrow format and then continued their talks with their delegations present.

The summit’s main focus was on effective response to the biggest current military and political challenges, including an upsurge in activity by terrorist and extremist groups and destabilisation of the situation on the CSTO countries’ borders.

The meeting ended with a package of documents being signed, including a statement by the CSTO Collective Security Council’s member states. In particular, documents were signed concerning cooperation in the transit of military formations and military products; readiness inspections for carrying out the Collective Rapid Reaction Forces’ objectives, their composition and deployment, as well as the CSTO’s budget.

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Speech at CSTO Collective Security Council session

President of Russia Vladimir Putin: Thank you, Mr Rahmon!

First of all, I would like to express my gratitude for the opportunity to work in Tajikistan today.

I would like to note that Tajikistan is our strategic partner and ally. We see that here in Tajikistan, you also face problems with certain forays and attempts to destabilise the situation. I would like to say straight away that we are assessing these threats adequately and you can always count on our help and support, although we see that your law enforcement agencies and armed forces are handling the problems that come up effectively.

Just now, in the restricted format, we had a detailed discussion on the CSTO’s zone of responsibility, as well as urgent regional and international problems, and outlined steps to further strengthen our organisation. We noted the increase in threats faced by CSTO member states in various areas.

We are concerned by the state of affairs in Afghanistan. International security forces have been in that nation a long time, carrying out certain work, including positive work; however, it still has not brought qualitative, definitive and decisive improvements to the situation. Unfortunately, the situation in that country is deteriorating following the withdrawal of most foreign military forces.

There is an increase in the real danger of terrorist and extremist groups entering nations that neighbour Afghanistan, and the threat is made worse by the fact that in addition to the well-known organisations, the influence of the so-called Islamic State has also spread to Afghanistan. The scope of the organisation’s work has reached far beyond the borders of Iraq and Syria. Terrorists are carrying out mass executions, plunging entire nations into chaos and poverty and destroying cultural monuments and religious shrines.

The outcomes of the fight by international security forces against the production of narcotics is no less dispiriting. We know how this threat is growing from year to year; unfortunately, it is not decreasing.

I mentioned the situation in Syria and Iraq; they are the same as the situation in Afghanistan, in that they worry all of us. Please allow me to say a few words on the situation in this region, the situation around Syria.

The state of affairs there is very serious. The so-called Islamic State controls significant stretches of territory in Iraq and Syria. Terrorists are already publicly stating that they have targets set on Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem. Their plans include expanding activities to Europe, Russia, Central and Southeast Asia.

We are concerned by this, especially since militants undergoing ideological indoctrinations and military training by ISIS come from many nations around the world – including, unfortunately, European nations, the Russian Federation, and many former Soviet republics. And, of course, we are concerned by their possible return to our territories.

Basic common sense and a sense of responsibility for global and regional security require the international community to join forces against this threat. We need to set aside geopolitical ambitions, leave behind so-called double standards and the policy of direct or indirect use of individual terrorist groups to achieve one’s own opportunistic goals, including changes in undesirable governments and regimes.

As you know, Russia has proposed rapidly forming a broad coalition to counteract the extremists. It must unite everyone who is prepared to make, or is already making, an input into fighting terrorism, just as Iraq and Syria’s armed forces are doing today. We support the Syrian government – I want to say this – in countering terrorist aggression. We provide and will continue to provide the necessary military technology assistance and urge other nations to join in.

Clearly, without active participation by the Syrian authorities and military, without participation by the Syrian army, as the soldiers fighting with the Islamic State say, you cannot expel terrorists from this nation, as well as the region overall, it is impossible to protect the multi-ethnic and multi-faith people of Syria from elimination, enslavement and barbarism.

Of course, it is imperative to think about the political changes in Syria. And we know that President Assad is ready to involve the moderate segment of the opposition, the healthy opposition forces in these processes, in managing the state. But the need to join forces in the fight against terrorism is certainly at the forefront today. Without this, it is impossible to resolve the other urgent and growing problems, including the problem of refugees we are seeing now.

Incidentally, we are seeing something else: we are currently seeing attempts to practically put the blame on Russia for this problem, for its occurrence. As if the refugee problem grew because Russia supports the legitimate government in Syria.

First of all, I would like to note that the people of Syria are, first and foremost, fleeing the fighting, which is mostly due to external factors as a result of supplies of arms and other specialized equipment. People are feeling the atrocities of the terrorists. We know that they are committing atrocities there, that they are sacrificing people, destroying cultural monuments as I already mentioned, and so on. They are fleeing the radicals, first and foremost. And if Russia had not supported Syria, the situation in that nation would have been even worse than in Libya, and the flow of refugees would be even greater.

Second, the support of the legitimate government in Syria is not in any way related to the flow of refugees from nations like Libya, which I already mentioned, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, and many others. We were not the ones that destabilised the situation in those nations, in whole regions of the world. We did not destroy government institutions there, creating power vacuums that were immediately filled by terrorists. So nobody can say that we were the cause of this problem.

But right now, as I said, we need to focus on joining forces between the Syrian government, the Kurdish militia, the so-called moderate opposition, and nations in the region to fight the threat against Syria’s very statehood and the fight against terrorism – so that together, with our efforts combined, we can solve this problem.

I already spoke about the other issues that currently concern us, which we discussed today. In this respect, I would like to note that we plan to continue strengthening cooperation between our armed forces. We plan a whole set of activities in this area. I would like to also stress that our cooperation within the CSTO framework is certainly not directed against anybody. We are open to constructive cooperation, and that is precisely the approach that is reinforced in the final statement that will be signed today.

I am certain that we must resume concrete discussions on creating Euro-Atlantic systems for equitable and indivisible security; we need to carry out a full inventory of existing problems and disagreements. This analysis can be used to achieve a discussion of the principles of sustainable political development. The OSCE and other international organisations can be used to agree on legally binding guarantees concerning the indivisibility of security for all nations, achieve observance of important fundamental principles of international law (respecting the sovereignty of states, not meddling in their domestic affairs), and strengthen regulations on the inadmissibility of appeasing anti-state, anti-constitutional coups and the promotion of radical and extremist forces.

I would like to thank Mr Rahmon for his work as chairman of the CSTO, as well as my other colleagues, and to wish our Armenian partners and friends success in chairing the organisation. Thank you very much for your attention.

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36 Comments

Putin speaks out all the related Truth now, finally!
Also rightfully he points out, that US-ISIS could spread to Europe and Russia like a wildfire during storm, if it cannot be extinguished very soon.

“””””But right now, as I said, we need to focus on joining forces between the Syrian government, the Kurdish militia, the so-called moderate opposition, and nations in the region to fight the threat against Syria’s very statehood and the fight against terrorism – so that together, with our efforts combined, we can solve this problem.”””””

re: Syria and the latest BBC article. At least they did not do a blatant hack job ( maybe the sarcastic article in RI today about how to write mindless attacks on Russia hit a nerve) And , my, my they have a defense analyzer who actually makes sense:

Analysis: Jonathan Marcus, BBC defence correspondent

“Russia’s backing for Mr Assad should be seen not as a vote of confidence in Syria’s embattled president but as an investment in a country where Russia believes it can play out its foreign-policy role.

Indeed Mr Putin’s military deployments signal that he will not let the Assad regime fall. This does not mean Mr Assad will be there forever.

Russian diplomacy is working in tandem with its military policy, exploring all avenues for reaching some sort of interim deal in which Mr Assad might stay on, at least for the time being.

But Russia’s horizons in Syria probably extend well beyond Mr Assad’s active presence – a reflection of Russia’s concerns about militant Islam and wider trends in the region, and also its belief that Western remedies in the Middle East have been an unmitigated disaster. “

It is very frustrating to hear from a French source what is going on in CSTO affairs, and not to hear it from Russian sources. Nothing in TASS, nothing in Sputnik-RIA Novosti, nothing like the Voltaire-net story in the speech from Putin. Is the Voltaire-net story true?http://www.voltairenet.org/article188710.html
Meanwhile the US administration of criminals and liars pretends to be puzzled by Russia’s support for Syria, what a load of tripe in the New York Times. The Americans are not worth talking to, they don’t know how to tell the truth or hear it, it is something that sticks in their craw, there has to be some propaganda angle in play in everything they say, and behind that is a party line that is right out of the propaganda the west used to spout about Stalin. Beware, whoever dares to question the world according the New York Times: the truth is too important to be left out in the open and must be hidden behind a curtain of lies.http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/16/world/middleeast/white-house-split-on-opening-talks-with-putin.html?_r=0
It would be good someday to have access to a network of reporters committed to giving accurate information from every country, for example in the current crisis area from the capitals of Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Saudi, Qatar, Israel, Jordan, the western capitals, etc. so that each viewpoint can be assessed and a judgement formed. Reading between lines and deciphering cryptic word bites really sucks, and I am sick of it. I don’t know about anybody else but I have just about had it even with the internet. I get a better picture of the world from just daydreaming about it. Earth people can be so stupid!

Dear Earthling: (quoting from Voltaire-net link I gave above)
“The heads of the member states of the CSTO stated that their organisation could now deploy under the auspices of the UNO, in the same way as NATO. They agreed to coordinate their interventions at the UNO General Assembly at the end of September, with the aim of creating a global Coalition against terrorism.”
I find that your link provides a statement that is identical to the statement given by the Saker article above.
I ask you! Where is any indication, in the statement of Putin, of the Voltaire-net statement I quote here ?

Votairenet does try to read to much into the tea leaves at times but is generally an excellent source for information that you would not otherwise be privy to. They do a good job overall and are on the right side of the barricades as far as I am concerned.

The Soviet Union entered Afghanistan in late December, 1979. This is what happened in the first part of 1979, as told in “From the Shadows” by former CIA director and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and reprinted at stormcloudsgathering.com.

“The Carter administration began looking at the possibility of covert assistance to the insurgents opposing the pro-Soviet, Marxist government of President Taraki at the beginning of 1979. . .

And Afghanistan was making progress when socialist and getting help from the USSR. BTW the USSR did not invade Afghanistan but their military was INVITED in by the Legitimate government of the day….much as they would be anywhere else in the world with leaders who have their countries interests at heart.

I’m looking for an even more pointed statement when Putin addresses the UN at the end of this month. The gloves are coming off. The Kremlin has been on a diplomatic blitzkrieg for a few months now, and they must think they have enough support to take the USA’s strategy head-on.

By inviting the USA to join their coalition, Moscow has put Washington into Zugzwang.
The choice is: publicly support regime change in Syria over the destruction of ISIS, or join the Russian initiative to destroy the terror networks. Either way, American Exceptionalism, to say nothing of Indispensability, gets knocked cross-eyed.

sadly, when he said that Russia stands behind and will support any problems arising in Tajikistan I immediately … knee jerk … thought of when he said about the same thing in Donbass…that was very difficult to understand…I think the 5th column prevented Putin from entering Donbass right at the beginning of the war. Putin is not like a person that makes empty promises, and during that time, the beginning of the Donbass fiasco when he was making that promise, he was sitting on the edge of his seat I remember…as though it had already been talked about in the government and he thought he could make a tentative promise…but I guess he was overruled.

I consistently admire the way in which Russia speaks only the truth required for the concerns of the day, but even so never hesitates to speak the necessary truth, and never speaks anything other than the truth when she does speak. Russia is formally a friend of Israel, and yet will speak of “joining forces between the Syrian government, the Kurdish militia, the so-called moderate opposition, and nations in the region to fight the threat against Syria’s very statehood and the fight against terrorism…”

No mention of Israel or Turkey as belligerents acting against such a coalition. And perhaps as it comes together, these nations will reverse their positions and bow to the inevitable. Russia is quite elegant, I think, in allowing all parties in situations the maximum room to change and adapt, leaving it until the vital last moment for any potential opposition to gather its energy into a strike – at which time Russia will engage with that very energy to throw down the opponent.

I know it’s irresistible to use these judo analogies with everything that Russia and Putin do – but how can we see it otherwise? The entire military doctrine and diplomatic activities of Russia display this every day. There’s a rigorous adherence to the factual truth, combined with a severe reluctance to spend words or effort until the moment is right – combined yet again with zero hesitation to expend massive energy for actions deemed necessary, such as military drills.

“Russia is quite elegant, I think, in allowing all parties in situations the maximum room to change and adapt, leaving it until the vital last moment for any potential opposition to gather its energy into a strike – at which time Russia will engage with that very energy to throw down the opponent.”

Thank you for saying that Grieved. I think this is quite true. I felt frustrated when I read that again Putin would not mention with one word the true culprits. But then again, as you said, he is giving them one more and another and yet another chance to change their mind and come to their senses. Lie one warning after another but wrapped as an invitation to join forces.

Should they (US, Israel, Turkey, Saudi etc) decide to continue to follow on the path of destruction of a sovereign nation Russia will hit back with full might.

Israel will not change its position vis-a-vis the destruction of Syria. That’s not how they operate. They demand 100% gratification of their desires, being above dealing with mere goyim as if they were their equals. The Israeli elite want Syria broken up into four or so mutually antagonistic fragments, the better for Israel to dominate them, prior to the eventual annexation of those lands that they covet as Eretz Yisrael. And, of course, Zionazi intransigence and ambition, while growing more explicit over the years as the hard Right took over in Israel, and the Jewish Fifth Columns took over Western polities, the USA in particular, has been there awaiting realisation, since the days of Herzl and Ben-Gurion. Israel does not, and I believe can not, do compromise because the essence of their cult is the ineradicable belief in their superiority over the goyim, and the pre-eminence of Judaic Law over International Law, which they believe, must not be applied to those acting directly according to Divine Will. Jabotinsky’s ‘Iron Wall’ of total intransigence and absolute refusal to compromise, negotiate in good faith or keep agreements with others, unless they definitively favour the Jews, is ‘non-negotiable’. It is, of course, a psychology that has gotten them into strife, over and over again, throughout history, with hideous consequences, for the Jews and their victims as well, but today, with an increasingly deranged elite, inside Israel and in the Diaspora, armed with hundreds of nukes, it’s positively apocalyptic. Unfortunately there are lots of lunatics actively looking forward to such an outcome, particularly the loathsome Christian Zionists.

The truth is so much easier to deal with isn’t it….and you are right about elegance. Obama has already passed the torch to Putin privately to deal with ISIS. No doubt Turkey flooding Europe with refugee’s was the last nail in the coffin for the Capitalist Bully Boys from the West. As one of the posts I read either here or another site stated”…a lot of heavy breathing going on in Moscow these days” I couldn’t have said it better myself. Look at the line up of global leaders heading for Moscow even Erdogan (sp) is going to open a Mosque there with Putin in the coming weeks. Take a number and have a seat….Dr. Putin will be with you shortly!
Cheers,
RR

I hope and pray that such a force will be created that it will destroy the psycho takfiris, their enablers and handlers, their psycho mullahs and preachers, ideologues, strategists, tacticians, lying political apologists, western criminal bankrollers, the whole evil society, and that a plague like this will never again be allowed to exist on the face of the Earth; and that the US and its minions will be presented with the whole bill for repairing the destruction they have caused and making the victims whole again.

David,
Be careful what you wish for. If the forces unleashed were truly enough to destroy all your target parties, I doubt there’d be enough of the USA left to present any sort of bill to, or anyone left inclined to present it.

I think one should hope that the clash consists of a short, sharp lesson. Say, the first few NATO/USAF planes entering Syrian airspace falling out of the sky would be absolutely devastating to Western pre-eminence. In a word, it would be over.

CSTO’s bandwagon would break an axle under the crush of new partners, and the “psycho takfiris” could then be systematically destroyed.

I grew tired of Mike Whitney a long time ago, he is one of a long list of glib analysts who never manage to put their finger on the essential evil of the people they analyze, or who somehow manage to make it sound “everyday”. There is nothing “everyday” about the criminals in Washington and Jerusalem, Ankara, Riyadh, and the other cesspools of global power like Las Vegas, Los Angeles, New York, and the various lily pads where they seek peace from their own consciences. They need to be destroyed. I remember when Turkey’s foreign policy was “zero problems”, then over one weekend it switched. Who promised what? Not only a few downed jets, but a few radiating airbases and a generation’s worth of repentance might be the answer to today’s slick sickness. If it were not for zombies like Brzezhinski and Kissinger and their banker sponsors, a young girl in Afghanistan or elsewhere might have a prospect of a reasonable future instead of the prospect of being married to a bearded psycho four times her age. Enough is enough.

Your rage is not misplaced, but it is futile. The “evil” you speak of is just a point on the spectrum of human behaviors. Eradicating it? Maybe, over generations. In one cathartic event? Sure, but the collateral damage will be the rest of the spectrum, and even the planet.
I think the strategy being pursued by Russia & China is the only viable one. Box that “evil” in so it can’t continue to destroy nations and lives on an international scale. Expose it, challenge it, drive it into its domestic corner(s) where, disconnected from its international wealth pumps it can be constrained by the local population.

Erebus, that would be like trying to cage a cancer. If you do not then excise the cancer, you will suffer metabolic injury so great that you will perish, as the cancer pumps out various toxins, like ‘Free Market Fundamentalism’, ‘Western moral values’ or ‘Exceptionalism’. Cut the tumour out, plus the chemotherapy of somehow rescuing the non-malignant members of the cancer societies from the inhuman habits inculcated in them from birth (ie gross materialism, unbridled greed, cultural and racial superiority, addiction to crass ‘tittietainment’ etc)and even a few escaping cancer cells can cause metastasis elsewhere. What is really needed is a miracle, a ‘spontaneous remission’ where the individual cells in the Western cancer suddenly transform themselves into non-malignant, human, organisms again. There might be some good signs, such as the rise of Corbyn in the UK, the eclipse of Harper, the character of Pope Francis, but there is a Hell of a way to go, and not much hope of success.

David, I agree. The central problem facing humanity is that the planet has become dominated by evil psychopaths. There is a mountain of literature that explains what one can see with one’s own eyes. That is that the Rightwing Authoritarian Personality, or whatever other euphemism you care to use, suffer some or all of the well-known features of psychopathy ie the absence of human empathy and compassion, unbridled greed and narcissistic egomania, unscrupulousness and a preference for violence. The situation in the world today, geo-political, economic and ecological is a battle between good and evil. Many people refuse to face that reality, because it is frightening, and presages a dreadful global death struggle or the collapse of human civilization and probable species extinction. But denying the hideous reality won’t make it go away. What we have seen over recent decades in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Congo etc is evil in action, and we had better acknowledge that reality. From Obama down through Harper, Cameron, Abbott, Satanyahoo et al to the very dregs of politics and MSM propaganda, it is a vast field of human perfidy, differing only in the degree of their malevolence.

I agree and join you for the prayer.
Now it is official, Assad will not fall.
What more – Tajikistan will be no Ukraine. I just regret Kremlin was fooled with the no-fly zone over Libya and to weak in times crucial for Serbia.
However I also remember the empty promises of Putin regarding Donbass in March 2014.
In the meanwhile White House refused to co-operate with Kremlin against ISIS, as they have their “own” coalition…
It is time to dissolve NATO, no positive use of them. Putin’s idea of alliance is better and more attractive.

For several years now the MSM have suffered defeat after defeat with regards to setting a popular narrative. They failed, abysmally, to set up the pro-Syria war agenda in 2013. They failed – time after time – to establish the supposed “Russian invasion of Ukraine”. And they failed, catastrophically, to assassinate the character of Jeremy Corbyn by portraying him as some kind of dangerous Marxist lunatic. Simply put, the Media Machine doesn’t work anymore.

Russian intel watch very very closely the movements of Outlaw Empire airplanes over Syria & Iraq, not just the supposed airstrikes but air drops of supplies too. Excerpted from Lavrov’s latest speech:

“Equally, Lavrov lifted the veil a little bit to let the Americans know that the Russian military intelligence has not only been monitoring the operations of the American military aircraft in Iraq but have scientifically analyzed the US aircraft’s flight plans and so on. In sum, Russians seem to have intelligence dope to substantiate something that the Iranians have been all along maintaining, namely, that the American aircraft are regularly airdropping supplies for the IS.” http://blogs.rediff.com/mkbhadrakumar/2015/09/14/russia-exposes-us-hidden-agenda-in-syria/

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